Liverpool have a rather thin squad right now. Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson, Kostas Tsimikas, Dominik Szoboszlai, Joel Matip, Ben Doak, Thiago Alcantara and Stefan Bajcetic are all sidelined with injuries while Mohamed Salah and Wataru Endo are on international duty.
The transfer window is open — but Pep Lijnders seems to say that you shouldn't expect anything from the Reds in the January market.
"We spent a lot money in the summer," the assistant manager said at the press conference, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo.
"We really invested in the squad, the ownership really brought in the right players. Even when you have the injuries we have at the moment, they will be back in not that long hopefully.
"I think the difference between a good season and a top season is when you are going through these phases, how the squad reacts when players are missing. Mo going, how do Jota, Cody, Darwin and Lucho, how they step up, Harvey too.
"Then we always believe in the Academy as well. I think one thing is that you want to produce your own players to be able to fight, to compete and to win prizes.
"And the other reason why we have an Academy with 250 players there, they are running and dreaming and hoping in that in these moments when it's harder and the season gets tough in terms of injuries, that they can back you. They so far always did."
